STUDIO 666

Name: STUDIO 666
Item: STUDIO 666
Author: Tess Farrand

"Demonic Violence, Gore and Obscenity"

Family Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)

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What You Need To Know:

STUDIO 666 is a gory horror movie spoof featuring the Grammy-winning band Foo Fighters and its founder and leader, Dave Grohl. In the story, the band moves into a haunted mansion to create its tenth album. A demonic spirit possesses Dave after he finds and hears music created by another band and its leader. The leader murdered his band mates and committed suicide 25 years earlier. Dave starts writing a long hard rock song. The other band members become suspicious and disgruntled as the song stretches past the 20-minute mark. So, Dave starts murdering them one by one.

Based on a story by Dave Grohl, STUDIO 666 has one very funny scene in the first act where pop star Lionel Richie makes a comical cameo appearance. The rest of the movie, however, is filled with many lame jokes and lots of demonic-inspired blood and gore. The band and the filmmakers add some hard rock riffs and more than 200 obscenities and profanities. There’s also a brief sex scene. Finally, STUDIO 666 has a strong occult, demonic, evil worldview with demons and two Satanists.

Content:

(OOO, C, B, LLL, VVV, SS, N, A, DD, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Very strong occult, demonic worldview where a famous rock singer and composer becomes possessed by a demon and starts slaughtering his band mates while being egged on by goofy-looking costumed demons with red eyes, along with the involvement of two Satanists, plus [SPOILERS FOLLOW] at one point two band members find a book about the occult and perform a Christian exorcism ritual over their demon-possessed friend, which apparently works, but they end up being killed anyway and their friend still seems to be possessed in the movie’s last scene, which takes place a year later

Foul Language:

At least 203 obscenities (about 150 “f” words), seven strong profanities and two light profanities

Violence:

Extremely gory and bloody violence includes a chainsaw splitting an amorous heterosexual couple in half while in bed, a woman’s head being bashed in, a man’s face being pushed on a grill, another man burnt to a crisp, people stabbed, two decapitations, cannibalism, etc.

Sex:

Depicted fornication in one scene between a bare-chested man and a woman wearing a bra, plus some passionate kissing and sexual dialogue about the man’s amorous intentions toward the woman before they end up in bed together

Nudity:

Upper male nudity, two men are shown wearing a thong over their genitals, and a woman strips down to her bra in one scene

Alcohol Use:

Some alcohol use

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking but a woman tells band members that the lemon bars she just gave them are laced with cocaine; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Strong miscellaneous immorality such as a Satanist tells a rock star he wants to create a rock movement that will return to rock and roll’s Satanic roots, lying, deceit, and manipulation.

More Detail:

STUDIO 666 is a gory horror movie spoof featuring the Grammy-winning band Foo Fighters, where the band’s founder, Dave Grohl, becomes possessed by a demon and starts killing off his five band members in gruesome fashion. STUDIO 666 has one very funny scene in the first act where pop star Lionel Richie makes a comical cameo appearance, but the rest of the movie devolves into lots of demonic-inspired blood and gore, accompanied by hard rock riffs, a sex scene and more than 200 obscenities and profanities.

The movie opens with a flashback to 1994 with an unnamed, possessed rock singer slaughtering one of his band members in a small mansion on a hill. He then commits suicide by hanging himself off a balcony.

Cut to present day, where Dave Grohl and the other Foo Fighters band members are having a discussion with their record producer about a new album. Grohl, who writes most of the band’s hard rock songs, asks their manager, Jeremy Shill, for a place to make their tenth album. Shill picks the mansion where the previous murders occurred.

When a lady realtor shows them the mansion, Dave falls in love with its acoustics. So, he convinces his five band mates, Pat, Taylor, Nate, Chris, and Rami, to join him for two weeks in the mansion while he writes the songs for the album, and they work together on the arrangement for the songs. Meanwhile, Nate becomes enticed by the beautiful black-haired widow next door.

On the first day after moving into the mansion, the band’s electrician, Krug, is electrocuted to death while plugging in their large amplifier. As the coroner takes away his body, Dave convinces the band to stay at the house to do the album and to honor Krug’s memory. However, Dave is suffering from writer’s block. He also keeps seeing a mysterious gardener dressed in black and wandering around the grounds.

One night, while the other band members are sleeping, Dave explores the mansion’s creepy basement. He finds a raccoon’s dead body that’s been stuffed and put on the wall. He also finds a large tape deck on a table. He puts a tape reel onto the deck and starts playing a demo tape from a band called Dream Widow, the band that was murdered in the first scene. While the music plays, a demonic spirit looking like ghostly smoke enters Dave’s mouth and possesses him.

The next day, Dave has conquered his writer’s block and starts writing a long hard rock song. The other band members become suspicious and disgruntled as the song stretches past the 20-minute mark. So, Demonic Dave starts murdering them one by one.

Based on a story by Dave Grohl, STUDIO 666 has one really hilarious scene where Grohl, suffering from writer’s block, starts singing the Lionel Richie hit, “Hello, It’s Me.” Suddenly, Lionel Richie appears and yells at Grohl to stop singing his song. The rest of the movie, however, is filled with mostly lame jokes and lots of demonic-inspired blood and gore. The extreme violence includes a chainsaw murder, two decapitations and cannibalism. The band and the filmmakers add some hard rock riffs and many obscenities, plus a few strong profanities. There’s also a brief sex scene between Nate and the widow next door.

Finally, STUDIO 666 has a strong occult, demonic worldview. After the first band member is murdered, the four remaining band members talk with the widow next door. She tells them about the 1994 murders. She also tells them that somewhere in the mansion’s basement, the demon-possessed murderer hid a book about the occult that has a Christian exorcism ritual in it. Eventually, [SPOILERS FOLLOW] two of the band members find the book and perform the ritual over Dave. The exorcism really seems to work at first, but the demons in the story are assisted by two Satanists who finally appear. So, the surviving band members are eventually killed, and the last scene shows that, somehow, Dave is still possessed. Thus, the ending to STUDIO 666 turns out to be abhorrent and depressing, with the demonic world winning the day.

Though he’s an anti-drug advocate, Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl has been a long-time LGBT and gun control advocate, and supporter of loony, lying leftist politicians. So, it should be no wonder that his first fictional movie should be a demonic and abhorrent, though slightly comical, horror movie. Grohl’s former band, Nirvana, also a strong and vocal advocate for LGBT causes, disbanded in 1994 after its leader, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide.